Update for 2025.11-rc1

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>

CHANGES

@@ -1,3 +1,37 @@
+2025.11-rc1, released November 20th, 2025
+
+	Fixes all over the tree and new features.
+
+	Infrastructure:
+
+	- Support merged /usr/sbin/ (E.G. sbin a symlink to bin rather
+	  than separate directories), which is required by systemd
+	  256+
+
+	- support/scripts/cve-check can now be used to enrich a SBOM
+	  in CycloneDX format (as generated by
+	  utils/generate-cyclonedx) with vulnerability analysis from
+	  the NVD database.
+
+	Dropped a number of old and unmaintained packages and external
+	toolchains.
+
+	New defconfigs: Compulab IOT-GATE-iMX8 EBBR, QEMU x86-64 EFI
+
+	Removed defconfigs: at91sam9260eknf, atmel_sama5d3xek,
+	roseapplepi
+
+	New packages: broot, bvi, go-bootstrap-stage4, libpam-pkcs11,
+	llama-cpp, nnn, python-crccheck, python-fs, python-patch-ng,
+	python-pyfatfs, python-scp, python-whitenoise, snapboot, wmenu
+
+	Removed packages: aufs, aufs-util, axfsutils, bctoolbox,
+	belle-sip, belr, dmenu-wayland, dvbsnoop,
+	ev3dev-linux-drivers, expect, fbtft, gtk2-engines, gtkperf,
+	leafpad, lesstif, libbson, libglade, libgtk2, libjwt, libsexy,
+	linphone, logsurfer, mediastreamer, metacity, mongrel2, ola,
+	ortp, procrank_linux, ramspeed, sylpheed
+
 2025.08.1, released October 11, 2025
 
     Important / security related fixes:

Makefile

@@ -92,9 +92,9 @@ all:
 .PHONY: all
 
 # Set and export the version string
-export BR2_VERSION := 2025.11-git
+export BR2_VERSION := 2025.11-rc1
 # Actual time the release is cut (for reproducible builds)
-BR2_VERSION_EPOCH = 1757278000
+BR2_VERSION_EPOCH = 1763670000
 
 # Save running make version since it's clobbered by the make package
 RUNNING_MAKE_VERSION := $(MAKE_VERSION)

docs/website/download.html

@@ -16,34 +16,32 @@
           <th>Latest release date</th>
           <th colspan="2">Downloads</td>
         </tr>
-<!--
         <tr>
           <th>Candidate</th>
-          <th>2025.08.x</th>
-          <td>December 2025</td>
+          <th>2025.11.x</th>
+          <td>March 2026</td>
           <td>
-            2025.08-rc3<br/>
-            <a href="https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/blob/2025.08-rc3/CHANGES">
+            2025.11-rc1<br/>
+            <a href="https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/blob/2025.11-rc1/CHANGES">
               Changelog
             </a>
           </td>
-          <td>2025-08-28</td>
+          <td>2025-11-20</td>
           <td>
-            <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2025.08-rc3.tar.gz">
+            <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2025.11-rc1.tar.gz">
               <img src="images/zip.png" width="24" alt="">
               .tar.gz
             </a><br/>
-            <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2025.08-rc3.tar.gz.sign">[PGP sig]</a>
+            <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2025.11-rc1.tar.gz.sign">[PGP sig]</a>
           </td>
           <td>
-            <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2025.08-rc3.tar.xz">
+            <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2025.11-rc1.tar.xz">
               <img src="images/package.png" width="24" alt="">
               .tar.xz
             </a><br/>
-            <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2025.08-rc3.tar.xz.sign">[PGP sig]</a>
+            <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2025.11-rc1.tar.xz.sign">[PGP sig]</a>
           </td>
         </tr>
--->
         <tr>
           <th>Stable</th>
           <th>2025.08.x</th>

docs/website/news.html

@@ -9,6 +9,27 @@
 <h2>News</h2>
 <ul class="timeline">
 
+  <li class="timeline-inverted">
+    <div class="timeline-badge"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-thumbs-up"></i></div>
+    <div class="timeline-panel">
+      <div class="timeline-heading">
+	<h4 class="timeline-title">2025.11-rc1 released</h4>
+	<p><small class="text-muted"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-time"></i>20 November 2025</small></p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="timeline-body">
+	<p>We have a new release candidate! Lots of changes all over the tree, see the
+          <a href="https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/blob/2025.11-rc1/CHANGES">CHANGES</a>
+          file for more details.</p>
+
+	<p>Go to the <a href="/downloads/">downloads page</a> to pick up the
+          <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2025.11-rc1.tar.xz">2025.11-rc1
+            release</a>, and report any problems found to the
+          <a href="support.html">mailing list</a> or
+          <a href="https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/issues">bug tracker</a>.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </li>
+
   <li class="timeline">
     <div class="timeline-badge"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-thumbs-up"></i></div>
     <div class="timeline-panel">